Westchester Lady Bears heading to nationals

5:29 PM,
May 18, 2013

The Westchester Lady Bears have qualified for the state tournament and two national championship tournaments.

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The Westchester Lady Bears, a fifth-grade girls basketball team, went 4-0 in the WBA Lady Knicks tournament to extend their streak to six fifth-grade division tournament titles in a row this spring. Along the way they've secured berths in the state tournament, to be held in Albany in June and two national tournaments - one in Massachusetts in June, the other in Tennessee in July - and a No. 1 national ranking.

Undefeated against fifth-grade teams, their only losses were to sixth-grade teams. Still, a seventh tournament title was in a sixth-grade tournament, and last weekend they finished ...